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#126 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · STS · German, Bge M3 Custom Fr scores 68.8 vs 68.9 — about the same.
Released 2024-04-11. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bge M3 Custom Fr is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from manu, released Apr 2024.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano (open weights).